Hyderabad: In a significant victory, Asaduddin Owaisi the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief, won the Hyderabad Lok Sabha seat by a substantial margin, receiving 6,61,981 votes. He defeated the BJP’s candidate, Madhavi Latha, who garnered 3,23,894 votes.
Expressing his views on the election outcome and future political alliances, Owaisi indicated his willingness to support a prime ministerial candidate other than Narendra Modi. “I cannot talk about ifs, buts, and possibilities. I had said during the elections that if there is a chance that someone else can become the PM instead of Modi, then we will support them,” Owaisi told ANI.
Reflecting on the 2024 election results, Owaisi expressed his opinion that the BJP’s performance did not align with the public sentiment he observed. “The atmosphere that was there in the country, according to that the BJP should not have got even these number of seats. If we had done the right work they would have just got 150 seats. We could have stopped the BJP from forming the government and even the public wanted this, but were unsuccessful. But, at least we cannot be blamed,” he stated.
Owaisi also dismissed the notion of a Muslim vote bank in India, asserting, “One thing is clear there wasn’t any Muslim vote bank in the country and there never will be.”
Commenting on the BJP’s results in Uttar Pradesh, where they won 33 seats, Owaisi remarked, “They thought they were invincible in UP but no one is invincible. Will PM Modi run the government with the help of crutches?” In Uttar Pradesh, the Samajwadi Party (SP) won 37 Parliamentary Constituencies, while the Congress secured six seats.
Grateful for his re-election, Owaisi thanked his constituents, particularly acknowledging the support of youth, women, and first-time voters. “I would like to thank the people as they have given success to Majlis for the fifth time. I would like to thank the people of Hyderabad, especially the youth, women, and first-time voters who have given a historic success to the AIMIM party,” he said during a press conference.
This election marked the first time the BJP fielded a female candidate in the Hyderabad constituency. In Telangana’s 17 Lok Sabha seats, the BJP secured three seats and is leading in five, while the Congress won two seats and is leading in six.
According to the latest trends from the Election Commission, the NDA has won 295 seats, while the INDIA bloc has secured 230 seats. The Congress, which had only 52 seats in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, improved its tally to 99 seats. The BJP, having won a majority in both the 2014 and 2019 elections with 282 and 303 seats respectively, faced a more challenging political landscape in 2024.
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